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Continuity and change: Mapping the community of economists in Greece (1944 to 1967)

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  • Andreas Kakridis

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This paper combines quantitative, biographical and qualitative data to trace out the structure and dynamics of Greece's post-war community of economists, and explore its implications for the country's economic discourse. Greek economics was a state-centred profession whose fate was intertwined with that of the post-war developmental state apparatus. Most economists were employed in universities, the civil service or banking, with substantial interpenetration between branches. This configuration of professional constituencies, in conjunction with the structural features of each institution, conditioned the form and content of economic discourse. Professional and ideological cohesion went hand in hand, whilst substantial degrees of vertical and horizontal control by senior members further fostered consensus and increased professional sclerosis. Nevertheless, evidence from a new database of economic journal publications suggests that a substantial realignment took place in the late 1950s and 1960s, as a younger generation of scholars - most of them educated in the post-war UK/US, and affiliated with the newly established Centre for Planning and Economic Research - entered the scene.

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  • Andreas Kakridis, 2009. "Continuity and change: Mapping the community of economists in Greece (1944 to 1967)," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(4), pages 625-664.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eujhet:v:16:y:2009:i:4:p:625-664
    DOI: 10.1080/09672560903201268
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